Friday, January 13, 2017

New Series ROYAL CITY Coming in March. Order Now!

Hey, this is Jeff Lemire, creator and writer of Descender, Black Hammer, and Sweet

ROYAL
CITY is the first ongoing series that I have both
written and drawn since Sweet Tooth.It’s definitely my most ambitious and personal project
to date, and can’t wait for the book to launch in March.

ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading
literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where
he grew up, and is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult
siblings, his overbearing mother, and his brow-beaten father, all of whom are
still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned
decades ago. What follows is a mysterious journey into the Pike family’s past
and into the strange underbelly of the town Patrick grew up in.

The book will combine grounded family
drama with a healthy dose of magical realism and mystery, much like my previous
books Essex County and The Underwater Welder, and the first chapter
will be a double-sized, 56-page issue!

You can pre-order the first issue now at
your local comic book store or through an online retailer.

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(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Jeff Lemire

DOUBLE-SIZED DEBUT ISSUE! NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, A.D., Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County and is his most ambitious, and most personal, project to date.